A RATEPAYER’S COMPLAINT
Sir, —My rates have gone up £2 this year; some have gone up £3. With all the new houses—hundreds of them — oaying rates, I should think rates w ould be reduced. What have we had for our money this last year? Gutters were not swept for months until a week or so ago, when two men swept the rubbish on to the bank, and there left it for the first warm nor’-west to blow back. In many' places Californian thistles are growing through the asphalt; in other places poplar roots. The ratepayers keep the grassy half of the footpaths in order, and the grassy part between the gutter and the road, saving the Waimairi Council quite a lot in money and labour. I rather doubt the shortage of labour when two men working together do the work that one man formerly did alone.—Yours, etc., WAIMAIRI RESIDENT.
August 24, 1951. [“lf ‘Waimairi Resident’ will refer his complaints to the Waimairi County Council in writing they will be given attention.” said the county clerk (Mr H. A. Ferguson), when this tetter was referred to him.]
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 3
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